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The Sound of Movies: Masters of the Film Score Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Films Guest Talk Late Screening Free Ticketed Event dakis & associates 1521 Danforth Avenue Toronto, ON Canada M4J 5C3 T 416.516.7335 F 416.516.9733 Client: Delisle Publication: TJFF Program SPECIFICATIONS: FULL PAGE AD Size/full bleed 7.75” x 10.75” Size/trim 7.5” x 10.5” Size/live area 6” x 9.5” Colours: 4-colour process Date: 02_28_11 Due: 03_01_11 CONTENTS NARRATIVE FEATURES 19 COMEDIES 23 DOCUMENTARIES 25 BIOGRAPHIES 32 SIDEBAR SERIES 35 SHORTS 38 4 Schedule 15 Hillel Spotlight on Israeli Film 38 Shorts 5 Tickets 15 Free Talks 42 Patron Circle 6 Premier’s Message 17 Free Films 43 Friends and Fans 7 UJA Message 17 TJFF Cinephile 44 Special Thanks 8 Executive Director’s Welcome 17 Sensory-Friendly Screening 45 Nosh Donors 9 Co-Chairs’ Message 18 Opening/Closing Night Films 45 Volunteers 10 Sidebar Series 19 Narrative Features 46 Sponsors 12 Programme Director’s Notes 23 Comedies 49 Advertisers 13 Programmers’ Picks 25 Documentaries 67 TJFF Staff 14 David A. Stein Memorial Award 32 Biographies 70 Index 15 FilmMatters 35 Sidebar Series MAY 3–13 2012 TJFF.COM 20TH ANNUAL TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 3 SCHEDULE Thursday May 3 Wednesday May 9 8:00 PM VC 99 MIN • A Bottle in the Gaza Sea 12:30 PM AG 81 MIN • Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment 1:00 PM BC 121 MIN An Article of Hope w/ The Last Flight of Petr Ginz Friday May 4 3:00 PM AG 87 MIN Michael Nyman in Progress w/ A Composer’s Dream 3:00 PM SC 96 MIN 1:00 PM ITH 55 MIN Kafka’s Last Story Nicky’s Family 4:00 PM BC 105 MIN 3:00 PM ITH 52 MIN The Brother Who Sent the Rosenbergs to the Electric Chair • Remembrance 4:00 PM SC 88 MIN • How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire w/ Woody Saturday May 5 Before Allen 5:30 PM AG 75 MIN Born in a Concentration Camp w/ Through the Eye 1:00 PM ITH 75 MIN Notes and Frames: The Neglected Art of Film Music of the Needle 3:00 PM ITH 72 MIN Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann 5:30 PM SC 119 MIN • Free Men w/ Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight 9:15 PM TU 100 MIN • OSS 117—Lost in Rio 6:00 PM SC 121 MIN • The Prize 9:30 PM AG 93 MIN • The Day I Saw Your Heart 6:30 PM BC 88 MIN • My Dad is Baryshnikov 11:30 PM TU 88 MIN This is Sodom 8:00 PM AG 112 MIN Something Wild 8:00 PM SC 124 MIN • My Australia w/ Stitches Sunday May 6 9:00 PM BC 98 MIN • Off-White Lies w/ Around Trip 12:00 PM AG 98 MIN Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound 9:00 PM SC 109 MIN • Dorfman w/ Flawed 1:00 PM SC 63 MIN • Dressing America—Tales From the Garment Center w/ Needle and “Tread” Thursday May 10 1:00 PM ITH 97 MIN The Art of Spiegelman w/ In the Shadow of No Towers 12:30 PM AG 100 MIN • Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom w/ Grandpa Looked Like 2:00 PM SC 100 MIN • Foreign Letters William Powell 2:30 PM AG 127 MIN • My First Wedding w/ Not Your Time: The Musical 1:00 PM BC 72 MIN Torn 3:00 PM SC 88 MIN In Search of Yiddish 3:00 PM SC 90 MIN • Portrait of Wally 3:30 PM ITH 112 MIN Planet of the Apes 3:00 PM AG 63 MIN • Dressing America—Tales From the Garment Center w/ 5:00 PM SC 99 MIN • A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Needle and “Tread” 5:15 PM AG 81 MIN • Life in Stills w/ Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer and 3:30 PM BC 70 MIN Deaf Jam Cameraman 4:00 PM SC 106 MIN • Roth on Roth w/ Howard Fast: Being Red 5:30 PM SC 83 MIN • Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story 5:30 PM SC 97 MIN • The Flat 7:00 PM ITH 113 MIN The Conversation 6:00 PM BC 83 MIN • Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story 7:45 PM AG 93 MIN • Six Million and One 6:00 PM AG 70 MIN Miss Judy w/ Baghdad Twist 8:00 PM SC 60 MIN Memory After Belsen (work-in-progress) 6:30 PM SC 81 MIN • Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment 8:30 PM SC 93 MIN • The Day I Saw Your Heart 8:00 PM SC 112 MIN Invisible w/ Reality Check 8:00 PM AG 121 MIN • The Prize Monday May 7 8:30 PM SC 127 MIN • My First Wedding w/ Not Your Time: The Musical 12:30 PM AG 88 MIN Women Unchained w/ Alone 9:00 PM BC 96 MIN Polish Bar 1:00 PM BC 118 MIN Gilad’s Liberation Army w/ Luxuries 3:00 PM SC 62 MIN The Lost Love Diaries w/ Letters Home Friday May 11 3:15 PM AG 52 MIN Evening Primrose 12:00 PM AG 94 MIN • Kaddish for a Friend 3:30 PM BC 101 MIN The Law in These Parts 1:00 PM BC 104 MIN The Dreamers w/ Thou Shalt Not Dance 4:00 PM SC 102 MIN Naomi 2:15 PM AG 95 MIN • Wunderkinder 5:00 PM SC 94 MIN • Kaddish for a Friend 3:15 PM BC 119 MIN • Free Men w/ Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight 6:00 PM AG 90 MIN • The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 4:30 PM AG 77 MIN American Musical Theatre: Elmer Bernstein w/ House, Tops 6:00 PM BC 105 MIN • My Australia w/ The Basketball Game 6:45 PM SC 81 MIN • Life in Stills w/ Wolf Suschitzky—Photographer and Saturday May 12 Cameraman 12:00 PM BC 78 MIN 7:30 PM SC 93 MIN • Six Million and One Sensory-Friendly Screening 230 PM BC 48 MIN 8:00 PM AG 90 MIN • Portrait of Wally Ladies and Gentleman…Mr. Leonard Cohen 4:00 PM BC 70 MIN 8:30 PM BC 110 MIN The Last Butterfly Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith 7:00 PM BC 70 MIN 9:00 PM SC 88 MIN • God’s Fiddler Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin 9:30 PM ITH 70 MIN Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene Tuesday May 8 9:30 PM BC 100 MIN Let My People Go 9:30 PM AG 106 MIN My Best Enemy 12:30 PM AG 84 MIN Standing Silent 1:00 PM BC 100 MIN Salsa Tel Aviv Sunday May 13 3:00 PM AG 52 MIN The Boys of Terezín 11:00 AM BC 90 MIN 3:00 PM SC 90 MIN In Heaven, Underground The New Yiddish Cinema: Renaissance or Curiosity? 12:00 PM AG 120 MIN 3:30 PM BC 88 MIN • God’s Fiddler Simon and the Oaks 1:00 PM SC 87 MIN 4:00 PM SC 100 MIN • Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom w/ Grandpa Looked Like The Kissinger Saga 1:30 PM BC 106 MIN William Powell • Roth on Roth w/ Howard Fast: Being Red 2:00 PM SC 88 MIN 5:00 PM SC 95 MIN • Wunderkinder • My Dad is Baryshnikov 2:45 PM AG 97 MIN 5:30 PM AG 97 MIN Exile—A Myth Unearthed • The Flat 3:00 PM SC 105 MIN 6:00 PM BC 100 MIN • Foreign Letters • Remembrance 4:00 PM SC 90 MIN 6:15 PM SC 98 MIN • Off-White Lies w/ Around Trip • The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 4:30 PM BC 88 MIN 7:30 PM SC 100 MIN • OSS 117—Lost in Rio • How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire w/ Woody 8:00 PM AG 99 MIN A People Uncounted Before Allen 5:00 PM AG 66 MIN 8:30 PM SC 94 MIN Obsession Hitler: the Comedy Years w/ You Nazty Spy! 7:30 PM BC 100 MIN 8:45 PM BC 109 MIN • Dorfman w/ Flawed A.K.A. Doc Pomus AG Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Ave. BC Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. W. ITH Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. SC Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge St. TU Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina Ave. VC Cineplex Odeon Varsity & VIP Cinemas, 55 Bloor St. W. • Indicates film has additional screening(s).Please Note 4 Running times do not include guest speakers where applicable. All films shown in their original language. Films not presented in English are shown with subtitles. TICKETS IN-PERSON ADVANCE PURCHASE TICKETS FREE STUDENT ADMIssION BOX OFFICES Order tickets online at tjff.com Subject to availability. Five minutes April 18–May 3 Or by phone at 416 324 9121 prior to each screening, students with Toronto Jewish Film Festival (phone lines open Noon–6:00 pm) valid ID will be admitted for free from Downtown Advance Box Office* the Rush Line.